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RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Veggie - 20-07-2022
Progress report - I've almost given up coffee now and switched to Free Herb teas.
Also, I've cut back on butter, going back to a habit I had many years ago when trying to lose weight. The Golden rule is, I can only have butter on bread if there's nothing else on the bread. For example, Butter on toast is OK, but Butter and Jam is not - its Jam only.
Today, I spread homemade chutney on the bread and put cheese on that. Normally, it would be buttered bread with cheese and chutney.
For the record, the homemade deodorant is coping well with the heat wave - very runny to apply though! Apparently, coconut oil melts at 25C so it should solidify again when the temperature drops.
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Vinny - 20-07-2022
(20-07-2022, 04:26 PM)Veggie Wrote: Progress report - I've almost given up coffee now and switched to Free Herb teas.That's me out then!
Also, I've cut back on butter, going back to a habit I had many years ago when trying to lose weight. The Golden rule is, I can only have butter on bread if there's nothing else on the bread. For example, Butter on toast is OK, but Butter and Jam is not - its Jam only.
Today, I spread homemade chutney on the bread and put cheese on that. Normally, it would be buttered bread with cheese and chutney.
For the record, the homemade deodorant is coping well with the heat wave - very runny to apply though! Apparently, coconut oil melts at 25C so it should solidify again when the temperature drops.
The last thing I would ever give up is butter! 
I hadn't tasted butter until I got married (Brought up on bread doorsteps with marg on!) and I sure as hell aint going back to marg, or worse still, dry bread! 
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Veggie - 20-07-2022
Doorsteps with butter is OK and you get the real taste of butter. Doorsteps with butter and jam isn't and you lose the butter effect with jam.
We used to buy butter from a block in the grocers, wrapped in greaseproof paper. It was quite salty with obvious crystals. Real butter.
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - JJB - 20-07-2022
I'm drooling
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Vinny - 21-07-2022
(20-07-2022, 08:12 PM)Veggie Wrote: Doorsteps with butter is OK and you get the real taste of butter. Doorsteps with butter and jam isn't and you lose the butter effect with jam.We had a co-op near by which had masiisve rounds of butter and cheese. They used to get butter in wooden butter barrels, although as a kid I don't remember sampling it, just ogling it on the marble counter
We used to buy butter from a block in the grocers, wrapped in greaseproof paper. It was quite salty with obvious crystals. Real butter.
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Veggie - 21-07-2022
Our grocer had butter and cheese on a ? marble slab. He cut them with wire then shaped the butter with wooden butterpats. There was also a bacon slicer and boxes of biscuits with lift up lids - the one at the end had cheaper broken biscuits and , if you were lucky, there'd be a chocolate one in your bag.
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Vinny - 21-07-2022
(21-07-2022, 10:47 AM)Veggie Wrote: Our grocer had butter and cheese on a ? marble slab. He cut them with wire then shaped the butter with wooden butterpats. There was also a bacon slicer and boxes of biscuits with lift up lids - the one at the end had cheaper broken biscuits and , if you were lucky, there'd be a chocolate one in your bag.Helen used to work in a shop which had the biscuits with lift up lids and a broken biscuit box. When pensioners came in asking for broken biscuits and there werent any she used to bash a few about to make sure there was!
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Veggie - 21-07-2022
What a lovely thing to do.
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RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Veggie - 01-08-2022
The Moneyless Chicken is going to spend £1 a day on food - that's the plan - and that's for all meals, snacks and drinks.
So far today, I've "spent" 45p and most of that was on a icecream.
RE: The Moneyless Chicken - Vinny - 01-08-2022
(01-08-2022, 08:50 PM)Veggie Wrote: The Moneyless Chicken is going to spend £1 a day on food - that's the plan - and that's for all meals, snacks and drinks.Can you rollover what you don't spend in one day, to the next, and the next and have a binge later in the week?
So far today, I've "spent" 45p and most of that was on a icecream.
